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title: "En des 'bout de time dey got de wood on de fier, der daddy, he come… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "En des 'bout de time dey got de wood on de fier, der daddy, he come skippin' in, en de little bird, he flew'd away. Who acts: des bout, bout. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 36

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"En des 'bout de time dey got de wood on de fier, der daddy, he come skippin' in, en de little bird, he flew'd away.

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**Who acts:** des bout, bout · **What happens:** get, come, fly · **To what, where:** de wood, de fier, skippin

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (des bout, bout), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:25:36
# text = "En des 'bout de time dey got de wood on de fier, der daddy, he come skippin' in, en de little bird, he flew'd away.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	En	En	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dey	dey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	compound	_	_
14	fier	fier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	skippin	skippin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	conj	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'd	'd	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | des bout de time dey | de wood |  | de fier |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on fier=Source |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | bout | skippin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skippin=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** *in a quote* | past | bout |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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